A week back I commented on the VDARE article “Bad News About Those South Asian Model Immigrants.” Here is data I calculated from a 2002 table titled “Immigrants admitted who were adjusted to permanent resident status by selected status at entry and region and country of birth”:
FamilypreferenceEmploymentpreferenceImmediaterelativesAslyumDiversityBangladesh 13.4% 18.5% 44.4% 3.3% 20.1%India 16.0% 60.3% 21.2% 3.6% 0.0%Pakistan 21.3% 24.3% 42.7% 3.4% 7.9%Total 16.7% 52.3% 25.9% 2.4% 2.5%
1) Note the differences between the various immigrant streams by nation and the trend of poverty and employment rate correspondingly.2) Seems like the degradation I was assuming isn’t really happening (at least as of 2002). Since Indians are a disproportionate fraction of South Asian immigrants, they are skewing the percentages to look much better than I’d expected for the total. One thing that it tells us is the the “Diversity Lottery” is jack, my personal experience with people who won the lottery is that they are losers (note how many Bangladeshis come that way).
Update-Related brown news: Manish points me to this story about an Indian American who won a Republican primary run-off in South Carolina. A few points….She was born in the U.S. in 1972.Her parents are professionals.She is married to a white American (maiden name “Nimrata N. Randhawa,” she goes by Nikki Haley).You have to look close at her photo to tell she’s brown (she’s from a Punjabi background).Raised Sikh, she “believes in Jesus,” and her children are baptized Methodist, though they still attend a Sikh Temple as well.Finally, her kids are named “Rena” and “Nalin,” not typical southern names. Nalin has a Hindi origin and Rena is Hebrew, though both ambiguous enough to sound South Asia or conventional American. But if she was a “sell-out,” you figure they would be named Rachel and Nathan.Anyway, this woman is probably typical of many of the “first wave” who are assimilating in the United States….
Posted by razib at 04:07 PM